How to calculate actual ride time - long trip

[seeyalater]

Hi all

I want to plan a trip from doncaster to hastings.
Ive planned to avoid the a1 as much as i can to give interest to the trip.
Its come out at 5hrs 30 mins.
the plan is to set off early hours so i can be there to have dinner and drinks etc.

My question is what is the realistic ride time is route planner says 5.5hrs

cheers

[arry]

What does that mean?

I dunno. Are you on a Ducati 1198 with a tank that takes a spit of fuel or an FJR1300 with heated seat grips vest and textiles?

I'd happily do 5 hours in one sitting on a comfy bike no stopping. Others would stop every couple of hours. Some every hour. Regardless of bike. But you'd have more chance of making it in one sitting except a fuel stop if you had a big comfy touring bike with a big tank.

Realistic is what you're up for. No-one else can tell you that TBH.

Too many unknowns and not enough info.

[doggone]

"As a rough guide" you can reasonably average 50mph on a bike, which is about five hours including fuel stops. Type of bike is less significant than you might think if you can comfortably do around legal limit when possible.
Whether you want to do that with just a couple of brief fuels tops is up to you.
Since you can filter through inevitable jams on a bike it's more predictable than a car.

[Ste]

How long is a piece of string?

That's an hour and a half longer than the 230 mile A1, M11, M25 route.

You might be taking A roads that aren't the A1 or you might be piecing together a route that's mainly smaller B roads.

Are you going to be averaging 50mph at best or are you going to be averaging as fast as you're willing to go which could be 100mph or more?

Is it dinner in the middle of the day you're wanting to be there for or is it dinner in the evening?

[seeyalater]

Guess i was asking on average how many miles in one hit do people do. my bike will do 200 mile before a refill. Im not sure how long i can ride for as never done it,, was looking for general advice.

[arry]

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[Ste]

Allow six hours, stop as frequently or as infrequently as you want. If it's a shitty cold day then you might well want to stop a couple of times as opposed to a nice day where you can keep going until you need to stop for petrol.

You might be able to get away without stopping for petrol at all but that's subject to your riding style on the day. And we don't know how many miles your five and a half hour route is.

You're avoiding the A1 but if the journey starts to get boring, you've had enough and just want to arrive already then you can head for the A1 to speed things up a bit.

I'm sorry that all our answers are vague but there are so many variables that it's nigh on impossible to give an accurate answer. If we tell you four hours but it actually takes six then you'd be a bit pissed off whereas if we tell you six and you get it done in just over four hours then you'll get to proudly tell us how wrong we were.

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[ThunderGuts]

If it's a "tour" rather than a day ride and you're crossing places you've not been before, factor in the possibility of going to look at something, stopping off randomly (e.g. bike photos) etc. - this will all add up. 5.5 hours of actual riding time in the saddle; I'd include a 30 minute lunch stop, a couple of brew stops and some photos, so probably about 7.5 - 8 hours for me. The other thing to consider is the weather; it's handy to have some float in your schedule so if it's due to rain late afternoon, you can get your ride done by then, or alternatively set off a bit later to miss the tail end of a weather front. Not always possible to have this sort of float, but it's handy and beats just riding through the pouring rain getting cold and wet.
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[seeyalater]

thats a good link too thanks,, lots to consider. be better to not have a time limit at all as such, set off earlier than need too etc

[Riejufixing]

[Kentol750]

Did Kettering to York in 1 hit a couple of years back. A1 isn't that boring and it took 2
1/2 hours up and about 2 1/4 back. Friday afternoon/ Sunday afternoon. Maps said 2 hrs 50mins. Would try to make the most of faster roads before hitting the Dartford crossing. I'd also fill up in a tesco/asda/Morrison's halfway that's close to your route. A lot of the services are between 20 and 25p a litre more than the supermarkets.
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[martin734]

The last long trip I did on my bike was Poole to Sheffield, 240 miles. I did the trip up there on a Friday afternoon and it took just over 4 hours, the return trip was done late Sunday night into Monday morning and took just less than 4 hours. It was all dual carriageway and motorway and I didn't have to stop for fuel, just a 15 min comfort break. That was on my ST1100. I have done a similar trip on a ZX6R and it took almost an hour longer each way due to fuel and comfort stops.
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[Kentol750]

M11 is quite boring, last time I went into London that way there were toadworjscand average speed cameras. That's your most direct route, I'd fill up in Tesco Huntingdon, it's close to a1. Pick up m25 of m11 and remember to check toll roads!
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